Mathematics is visible everywhere in nature, even where we are not expecting it. It can help explain the way galaxies spiral, a seashell curves, patterns replicate, and rivers bend. Even subjective ...

“Why bring together two fields that seem to many people so very disparate" What could mathematics and poetry share, except that the mention of either one is sometimes enough to bring an uneasy chill ...

A group of physicists has published the most compact and elegant explanation of one of nature’s simplest phenomena: the way light behaves in the sky above us. A group of physicists has published the ...

A strange 300-foot pattern of circles and lines recently appeared in a farmer's field in the English countryside near Wiltshire, a place long associated with mysteries such as crop circles and ...

Watching a cell divide is mesmerizing. But it gets even more spellbinding when you realize there's a mathematical pattern underneath it. Over many divisions, the generations of cells reproduce ...

Miss, my brain hurts! You make me think too much.” Meant as an insult, this became the most meaningful compliment I’ve received since becoming a middle school math teacher three years ago. Learning to ...

Andrew J. Milne is affiliated with Dynamic Tonality, a loosely organised collective of researchers and fellow travellers who host a website and build software for facilitating interaction with ...